Brandon, Does your 20-way join come from a stored code or is it a straight SQL? > So if this white paper is correct, then > cursor_space_for_time=true won't > help in my case because the cursor is closed after > execution I might be mistaken, but I think it applies to the "closed, but cached" statetments as well, which is the case for any stored code (unless _close_cached_open_cursors is set to true) Thanks, Boris Dali. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l